The Holy Spirit and Mission

Interest in the Holy Spirit in relation to mission and interpretation arises from several distinct directions. Stephen Bevans and Susan Smith in particular provide advocacy for the "primacy of the Holy Spirit" in time, though not in "status". Pentecostalism and mission is a whole story again.

• John Calvin's teaching on the witness of the Holy Spirit.
• The charismatic and Pentecostal churches
• Indigenous Churches such as African Indigenous Churches
• Reflection on the logical priority of the work of the Spirit and the work of the Messiah.
• Reflection on how much people are motivated to mission through spiritual renewal compared with motivation through awareness of the logical force of the "Great Commission."
• Theology of Religions, for example John Paul II's comments on other Faiths.

Bevans, Stephen B. "God inside Out: Toward a Missionary Theology of the Holy Spirit." International Bulletin of Missionary Research 22, no. 3 (1998): 102–5.

Bevans, Stephen B. "Jesus, Face of the Spirit: Reply to F. Dale Bruner." International Bulletin of Missionary Research 22, no. 3 (1998): 108-09.

Boer, Harry R. Pentecost and Missions. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1961.

Pinnock, Clark, Religious Pluralism : A Turn to the Holy Spirit

Susan Smith RNDM, The Holy Spirit and Mission in Some Contemporary Theologies of Mission

Susan Smith RNDM, "The Spirit and Contemporary Christian Mission"

Taylor, John Vernon. The Go-between God; the Holy Spirit and the Christian Mission. London, SCM Press, 1972.